Directions: Select one of the following: (a) Regional economic integration in the Americas, (b) Regional economic integration in Latin America, (c) Regional economic integration in Asia, or (d) Regional economic integration in Africa. Answer the following questions:

1. Who comprises the group?   
2. Do sub-groups exist? If so, who are they?
3. What was the origin?
4. What does it involve?
5. What impact does it have on international business?
6. What are the benefits of the organization?
7. What are the consequences?

(LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY) When did colombias movement for independence start? What was the role of the Enlightenment in the development of the movement for Independence? What was the international event that revolutionized local leaders? What were the immediate reasons for the Independence?  Evalulate the social classes involved in the societal dislocation? What was the position taken by the Crown? Briefly discuss the events leading to independence. Who really won the war of independence? How did the war of independence effect the neighbors?

Do you believe that working at Lowell Mill was a good position for a female in the 1830's? Why or why not? Many of the mill girls were working to help support the education of a male family member. How do you think this affected their attitude towards work and their working conditions?

You are Head of Sales & Marketing and a member of the Strategic Management Team for a medium sized organization that manufactures and sells specialized oil and gas exploratory, drilling and production equipment to a wide range of global oil and gas companies. One of the major strategic initiatives being considered by the Strategic Team is expanding the organization’s existing U.S. based manufacturing operations of this equipment to both South America and the African continent to reduce shipping distance of material and establish a local presence.

The targeted country in Africa being considered is Nigeria, which would allow shipment of equipment to African oil producers in Angola, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Cameroon, Gabon, DRC and Equatorial Guinea. The targeted country in Latin America under consideration is Venezuela, which would allow shipment of equipment to Latin American oil producers in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia.

The company’s CEO asks you to prepare an environmental scan that will focus on key strategic decision making that need to be examined for both countries under consideration, Venezuela and Nigeria, and to be “brutally honest” in your evaluation and comments.

Please type your answer under the right section in the table below:

The city of Miami has received a proposal to build a new multipurpose outdoor sports stadium. The expected life of the stadium is 20 years. It will be financed by a 20-year industrial development bond that will require a payment of 8 percent interest annually. The stadium’s primary tenant will be the city’s Triple-A baseball team, the Mudhawks.

The plan’s backers anticipate that the new facility will also be used for rock concerts and college and high school sports events. The city does not pay any taxes. The city’s cost of capital is 8 percent. The costs and estimated revenues generated from the facility are presented as follows:

Required:

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1. Identify the kind of sampling was implemented in the following scenarios.
   1. Police at a sobriety checkpoint pull over every fifth car to determine whether the driver is sober.
   2. A pollster obtains a list of all the residential addresses in a certain town and uses a computer random number generator to choose 150 of them. The pollster visits each of the 150 households and interviews all the adults in each household about their television viewing habits.
   3. Officials at a metropolitan transit authority want to get input from people who use a certain bus route about a possible change in the schedule. They randomly select 5 buses during a certain week and poll all riders on those buses about the change.
   4. A smartphone app produces a message requesting customers to click on a link to rate the app.
2. Imagine that you are asked to determine students’ opinions at your school about different types of contraception or birth control methods. Describe how you could go about getting a sample of each of the following types: simple random sample, sample of convenience, voluntary response sample, stratified sample, cluster sample, systematic sample.

1)A block of mass m1 = 8.00 kg and a block of mass m2 = 12.0 kg are connected by a massless string over a pulley in the shape of a solid disk having radius R = 0.350 m and mass M = 12.0 kg. The coefficient of kinetic friction between block m1 and the table is 0.27. a) Draw force diagrams of both blocks and of the pulley. b) Determine the acceleration of the two blocks. c) Determine the tensions ?1 and ?2 in the string on both sides of the pulley. d) How would the answer for ?1 and ?2 change is the pulley were massless?

2)During a certain time interval the angular position of a swinging door is described by θ = 5.3 + 7.1t + 4.5t 2 , where θ is in radians and t is in seconds. Determine (a) the angular position at t = 2 sec, (b) angular speed at t = 2 sec, and (c) angular acceleration of the door at t = 2 sec.

3)A figure skater is spinning with an angular velocity of 16 rad/s. She then comes to a stop over a brief period of time. During this time, her angular displacement is 5 rev. Determine (a) her average angular acceleration and (b) the time during which she comes to rest

4)A disk 6.00 cm in radius rotates at a constant rate of 98.0 rev/s about its central axis. (a) Determine the tangential speed at a point 4.00 cm from its center. (b) Determine the centripetal acceleration of a point on the rim.

5)Two girls ?1 = 21.0 kg and ?2 = 29.0 kg are standing 1.00 m away from the center of a rotation platform (Figure (a)), and the platform rotates at angular speed of 3.00 rad/s. Then both girls begin to walk towards the edge of the platform. If the radius of the platform is 2.00 m, what is the final angular speed of the system, when the girls reach the platform’s edge (Figure (b))? Model the platform as a uniform disk of mass M =350 kg, and the girls as point masses. The moment of inertia of a disk of mass M and radius R is 2 2 1 I disk = MR .

What is the significance of dancing to the people of the town (particular the mother)? in the short story Voice by Alice Munro

The body temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit of a sample of adults in one small town are:

Assume body temperatures of adults are normally distributed. Based on this data, find the 95% confidence interval of the mean body temperature of adults in the town. Enter your answer as an open-interval (i.e., parentheses) accurate to 3 decimal places. Assume the data is from a normally distributed population.

95% C.I. =